Statement
My name is Criss Lymand and I am a Junior at Eastern Lakeview High School.
I've been bullied for years.
It all ended when I got my arm broken by my bully
on Friday, March 23rd
It happened in a school hallway in front of lots of people.
It took getting my arm broken for things to finally come to a head
and now I am worried that this whole oreal will backfire,
that noone will believe what I am going through,
and that I'll have to go back to school and face Kim Dixon again
if this court doesn't do something to staighten things out.
I understand horsing around.
I understand good-natured name calling,
but what I've experienced for the last couple of years
goes beyond anything that that could be considered friendly teasing or good natured name calling
Kim Dixon consistently, through junior high and high school, went out of the way to make me feel insecure
intimidated, excluded, and victimized
1 think it all started, in fact I know it did,
when 1 transferred to the Eastern Lakeview school district as a seventh grade student.
My parents are military.
We travel a lot and have lived in about five different places during my lifetime.
Some of those places have been great, others have been less exciting.
No matter where my family has been located, I’ve gone to either military base schools or local schools
and have had little or no trouble fitting in.
I have quite a few friends from other states and countries that I e-mail, write to and visit,
but no one wants to hang around with me here,
and that’s all because of Kim Dixon.
I usually make friends quite easily, or I did until I came to this district.
Once I became Kim Dixon’s target for bullying,
I found it much harder to make or keep friends.
Everyone has been afraid to be around me.
During this school year and last, my parents have been deployed to Iraq.
I’ve been living with my grandmother, who has been wonderful through all of this.
I look quite average.
I am a good student, but not exceptional.
The only thing that I can think of that makes me at all different from the students here is that I have traveled quite a
I’m still considered an outsider,
, even though we’ve lived in this area for some years now.
I didn’t go to grade school with all these kids so I guess I don’t have much of a shared history.
But that didn’t seem to hurt me in the other places we’ve lived.
Thinking back, there were some things that may have made me seem different.
. I realized quite young that spending quality time with my parents was important to me
They are away so often that when we are all together, it’s special.
So, they would often walk me to school,
or drive me to school and we’d sit and talk before I’d go into the school buildings.
I think other kids may have found this odd.
And, once in awhile, I’d wear something of my Mom or Dad’s to school,
like one of their military shirts or one of their hats.
. This may have set me apart.
I think I’m the only military kid at this school right now.
. Since seventh grade, I’ve been in various classrooms with Kim Dixon and Robin Dwight.
Kim has always had something against me.
Kim seemed to have taken an instant dislike to me.
I remember the first day I was introduced in class, Kim laughed out loud at my name.
Since then, I’ve been plagued by name calling,
which didn’t bother me when that’s all it was,
but if you add in all the other things that Kim has done or instigated, it’s pretty bruising.
My family name is Lyman.
I’ve been called all kinds of names throughout the years based on the fact that some of the kids think I’m too close
Nothing really awful, but like I said, it all adds up.
The list of things Kim, specifically, has done and said is a long one.
Relevance Objection P or D
foundation n/a P&D
shows how she feels opinion..not an expert witness P
disproves the argument that she broke her arm somewhere else not an expert witness, opinion P
date n/a P&D
background n/a P&D
emotion opinion P
emotion opinion P
emotion opinion P
identifying the bully P
emotion opinion P
shows that she isn't overreacting P
shows that she isn't overreacting opinion P
background P
background opinion..not an expert witness P
making it clear that it was her opinion P
emotion opinion P
D. could say that she isn't quite sure … D
background P
background relevance? P&D
background relevance? P&D
background relevance? P&D
goes to show that she isn't normally an outsider P
goes to show that she isn't normally an outsider opinion P
background relevance? P
opinion opinion P
identifying the bully P
background opinion P
background opinion P
………….OPINION………. opinion P&D
emotions relevance? Or opinion P
background P&D
background relevance P&D
background relelvance P&D
background P&D
opinion P&D
opinion P&D
background relevance P
background P
opinion P
could prove that "good natured teasing" is logical D
background, could go to the argument that she is very introverted D
background P
shows that she isn't trying to fit in ….. D
shows that she isn't trying to fit in ….. D
she is perceptive to other people and has people skills P
relevance P
relevance
she is perceptive to other people and has people skills P
background P
background P
opinion opinion P
opinion opinion P
Kim was mean from the beginning Relevance to current case? P
opinion, background Opinion P&D
she's somewhat tolerant P
shows the jury how much it hurt her Relevance to this case? P
background P
opinion opinion P
shows accumulation P
opinion P
Evidence Questions
Please State your name spelling the last, Where do you live?
Exibit A & B Explain to me why you are here?
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what day was this?
How did this happen?
should be said when answering another question
What is the difference between horsing around and harmful teasing?
How long have you been experiencing this?
How did she make you feel?